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678, who explains how transpositions actually arise by transcribers trying to make up a complete set of the tales from several imperfect copies.

The same character frequently attaches to transpositions of words and parts of words.

Transpositions of words, if not purely accidental, as in Chaucer, "Parson's Tale," p. 689 (ed.

But of late years an increasing desire has been manifested, especially in Germany and America, to manipulate the fourth Gospel on grounds of internal evidence, at first only in the way of particular transpositions of more or less attractiveness, but latterly also by schemes of thorough-going rearrangement.